What ruins most knives?

cotdt said:
So if I use my knife to remove a staple from a pack of paper, you would accuse me of abusing my knife and tell me to "effing use the proper tool"?
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No, but that ain't prying.
That's staple removal.
I can do that with my fingernails, so it doesn't count as something a knife can't do.
 
I think you just have to be reasonable with what you can and can't do with a knife and also with which knife you do it. I've EDC'd many knives at work and those particular knives did just that...work! That includes everything from cutting to scraping to digging to even (gasp!) prying.

Now, would I ever carry a Chris Reeve Umnumzaan to work? Of course not. But something like my SOG Trident I wouldn't hesitate to use to help undo some bailing wire or to pry open some oyster shells at a friend's barbeque.
 
I hear what he said^ and have put a pry tool on my Keychain as I HAVE busted a few knife tips in my 49 years...

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sounds like "Ankerson" has ruined a load of knives for no good reason. maybe he should just edc the hammer?:eek:
 
Well if you pound on them, really pry with them you will break a lot of them I can tell you. :D

But then that's what cheap knives are for, they are replaceable tools.
 
BadBoyBrad!! said:
Cutting cable shielding.
Prying.
Using a blade for things that you know there are better tools for but you don't have on you at the moment.
Me. :(
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Everybody! :) There are few, if any knife bearing persons who have not at one time or another had need of a field expedient pry bar. That includes me and President Abraham Lincoln. At the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois, I got a close up look at his pocketknife. It was a two bladed Congress pattern (what else? ;)) with the tip on one of them broken off.

Sure, we all knew better. What's worse, we will probably do it again (Lincoln excepted). :D
 
Ankerson said:
Well if you pound on them, really pry with them you will break a lot of them I can tell you. :D

But then that's what cheap knives are for, they are replaceable tools.
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well good of you to be a sport about it.:D how many 110 bucks have you had or broken?
 
stabman said:
No, but that ain't prying.
That's staple removal.
I can do that with my fingernails, so it doesn't count as something a knife can't do.
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Maybe your fingernails could do it, but mine would break. Why risk your fingernails? Staple removal is light prying because it uses lateral motion.

I had this incident where I was with my brother, and we had to pry open something. We had only our house key and a knife. Well my bro didn't beleive in using knives for prying so he used our house key instead. The house key got permanently bent and we could not into our home for 3 days. I finished the job with my knife with zero damage.

Let me ask you, if you ever find yourself in life and death survival situation, and your only tool is your knife, would you use it to cut and pry open tin food cans to survive? Or would you simply starve yourself because you didn't have the "proper tool" with you?
 
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scraphogg said:
well good of you to be a sport about it.:D how many 110 bucks have you had or broken?
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About 4 or 5 over the years and they all held up very well for me, never broke a single one.

Used to keep on in my tool box just in case I needed it.

My only complaint was the locks would wear out over time with a lot of use, but that really didn't matter to me, I just bought another one. Very nice hard use blades over all and one of my all time favorite knives.
 
Since I always carry and Adventurer SAK I never pry with a knife blade. For little stuff and staples I use the small-screwdriver-can-opener blade and for heavier stuff I use the screwdriver blade. Given the handle length I get enough leverage on the tool blades which are made for such tasks. That's also the reason I virtually never use a blade tip as a screwdriver. The exception is sometimes to tighten an eyeglass screw.
 
LorenzoL said:
Non-knife people.
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If I'm camping with other people, I have a loaner knife to give out..but still keep a close eye on them.

I just can't believe the absolute need people have to put my knives into the campfire and poke about.

...like the 100 sticks they tripped over wouldn't work for that ?
 
cotdt said:
Why risk your fingernails?
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Because they grow back. Knife tips do not.

cotdt said:
Let me ask you, if you ever find yourself in life and death survival situation, and your only tool is your knife, would you use it to cut and pry open tin food cans to survive? Or would you simply starve yourself because you didn't have the "proper tool" with you?
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Thats ridiculous. Of course anyone in their right mind would use it if it was their LAST resort. Staples are not life and death, most every day chores are not life and death and there would be something else that would be better than a knife to open a can of freakin peaches.
 
Lending out knives especially to non knife people is a fast way to reduce its lifetime, sometimes to zero during just one loan.

but probably the worst thing is knife loss. If a knife is kept track of from the time it is deployed to the time its returned to the sheath loss can be prevented.
 
cotdt said:
Let me ask you, if you ever find yourself in life and death survival situation, and your only tool is your knife, would you use it to cut and pry open tin food cans to survive? Or would you simply starve yourself because you didn't have the "proper tool" with you?
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In a survival situation I'd eat bugs, drink urine, or do whatever was needed to survive.
Doesn't mean I'm going to make bug eating/urine drinking my standard operating procedure or say it's part of a normal diet.:cool:
 
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